Another flash of light, and they were standing in the ruins of a building. "Damnit! I must have entered the wrong coordinates again!" Derek fumed. Ausin clambered out of the rubble and his jaw dropped. "Actually Derek, you're kind of right this time." "Kind of right? What are you-" As Derek emerged from the hole, he too was shocked at what he saw. The crowd of zombies was surprising enough, but in the midst of them, was...them! 15 year old Jake, Amy, Mcnabb, Bishop, Calvin, Casey, Reaper, Scythe, and of course, 20 year old Derek. "Oh my god...I've taken us back to 2008 when we..." "Wait where's Nick and I?" "You two don't come in until later, now shut up and let me think!" Derek's mind was racing. Jake was evil. Mcnabb, Bishop, Reaper, and Scythe were going to die, and...so was he... "Hey I just realized something!" Austin exclaimed. "As long as we're here and we know what's going to happen, can't we save them?" "No." Derek replied. "What? Why not?" "Because, we can't interfere with the past!" "But how can something negative come from saving people's lives?" "Just trust me." Derek finished with the device just as the giant Hayes smashed out of his building. "Come on!" Derek shouted. "We've got to get out of here before we merge with our past selves!" "Before we what?" Austin asked, puzzled. "If we stay too long our DNA syncs with the DNA of our past selves and we become one! If that happens, things may not play out the same way as-" Then, Derek vanished. "D?" Austin spun around. "Derek? DEREK!"
Derek felt a sudden head rush as old memories flooded back into his head. He staggered back and almost fell, but Bishop caught him and pulled him away with the others. Then Derek remembered what was about to happen to him. "Bish, look out!" Bishop looked up and narrowly dodged the monsters teeth as Derek rolled the other way. "Woah...thanks man. You saved my life!" There was a scream as they saw what the monster had got instead: Casey was clutched in its jaws and was soon ripped to shreds. "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!" They shouted.
Derek suddenly felt a haze in the air as he was lifted from his body. He had the odd feeling of being compressed through a vaccum, then he was on solid ground. Austin was standing next to him, holding the device. "Holy shit! It worked!" He exclaimed. "What have I done?" Derek mumbled as he sunk to his knees. "I saw you save Bishop man. Sucks about Casey though." "NO!" Derek suddenly lept up and grabbed the front of Austin's shirt. "Don't you see? Hayes was supposed to kill Bishop and Casey was supposed to survive! He was supposed to marry Amy! He was supposed to impregnate Amy with me! He was supposed to build New Washington! Don't you see what this means?" "Um..." Austin replied. "It means that if we dont go back and save Casey, than I won't-"
All of a sudden, a bright blue wave enveloped the planet, wiping all signs of Casey (and anything to do with him) of the face of the Earth. The huge dome of New Washington was erased and replaced with a heavily guarded military base, the outside crawling with zombies. And Austin was teleported to where he would have been if Derek had never interfered: on Amy's sofa...with Amy...and their daughter Beth. It was as if Casey, and Derek, had never existed.
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